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President Obama dines publicly with Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe, and a Japanese newspaper, The Yomiuri Shimbun, publishes pro-Japan statements from Obama regarding the disputed group of islands known in Japan as Senkaku. Chinese officials condemn the Yomiuri interview, asserting China's own claim to the islands, known there as Diaoyu. Meanwhile, sherpas in Nepal campaign for better compensation after an avalanche on Mt. Everest tragically killed 16 of them last Friday.
